LETTER: Ministry of propaganda hard at work

“It is well war is so terrible, else we grow too fond of it.” — Gen. Robert E. Lee.

After watching the Charlottesville, Va., confrontation and recent events in California, it is difficult to determine which group hated the other the most.

What began as a protest for removing the statue of General Lee turned into a media field day for Trump haters and the DNC (Democratic National Committee) ministry of propaganda. Equating David Duke and neo-Nazis with General Lee easily wins first place for the most offensive hate speech. Using “white supremacists” as a rhetorical whip opens wounds of division and hatred of the president not seen since Lincoln.

Devastated by the war and reconstruction, the “solid South” evolved and “yeller dawg Democrat” was added to the lexicon to describe those who would vote for a “yeller dawg” before they would vote for the party of Lincoln.

Today, the party of Jefferson has become the party of Saul Alinsky: revising history when they can, eradicating history when they can’t.

The DNC/mass media complex has made the institution of slavery the “abrasive agent to rub raw resentments to far latent hostilities … to a fighting pitch.”

There will be no winners except Saul Alinsky and the fanatics he has inspired. We should pray removing historical monuments will not erase the 500,000 American souls lost in a great civil war “testing whether this nation … should long endure.”

Joe Exum

Snow Hill

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